(Finance) – In Türkiye the May 28th the ballot will be held elections for the renewal of presidency of the republic. This was officially announced by the Ankara Ysk Electoral Council, confirming with its data that no candidate has exceeded the 50% threshold to win in the first round. The president of the Ysk Ahmet Yener communicated that the incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan he got 49.51% of the vote, the main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu 44.89%, Sinan Ogan 5.17% and Muharrem Ince 0.44%. Erdogan’s role hangs in the balance after 20 years, forced into a runoff against his social democratic opponent Kiliçdaroglu.
Kemal Kiliçdaroglu promised to win the runoff on May 28: “If our nation says second round, we will absolutely win the second round,” he told reporters. “This willingness to change in society it is more than 50%.’ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed that he is clearly far ahead of Kiliçdaroglu in vote. Erdogan, speaking at his party headquarters in Ankara, said he led the main opposition candidate by 2.6 million votes. “Throughout our political life, without exception, we have always respected the decision from the national will. We also respect it in this election and we will respect it in the next ones,” he said. Erdogan had also stated that he expected to win in the first round.
There coalition of the parties who supported Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in yesterday’s elections in Turkey won the majority of deputies in parliament. According to the data of the state TV Trt, not yet definitive but with almost all the ballots scrutinized, the Popular Alliance formed by Erdogan’s Akp and other far-right and Islamist parties obtains the majority with 322 parliamentarians out of 600, however insufficient to be able to change the constitution, for which 360 deputies are needed.